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Author:   Selina Foltinek ,  Karin Hoepker ,  Katrin Horn
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781526182159

ISBN 10:   1526182157
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   29 April 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: Managing Knowledge and Capital in the Nineteenth Century – Karin Hoepker and Katrin Horn Part I: Capital, Reputation, and Legal Recognition 1. Sometimes it IS worse to be talked about: Epistemic Surplus and Social Capital – Karen Adkins 2. Rumor as Speculative Practice: Reports of Slave Uprisings in the Nineteenth-Century US South – Sebastion Jobs 3. US Immigrants, Remittances, and the Courts, 1904–25 – Atiba Pertilla Part II: Commerce, Print Culture, and the Circulation of Knowledge4. Epistemic Style and the “Knowing Unknown” of Racial Capitalism in W.E.B. Du Bois’s “Scorn” – Alexander Starre 5. Black Editorship and the Economics of Print: Pauline E. Hopkins and the Colored Press Conventions – Andrew Erlandson 6. “Interesting to Ladies”: How Foreign Correspondents Made Gossip a Profession – Selina Foltinek and Katrin Horn Part III: Pedagogies and Practices of the Home 7. Raising Capitalist Citizens: Pecuniary Pedagogies and Belonging in the United States, 1820–1900 – Jaclyn Schultz 8. Genteel Performance, Embodied Knowledge, and the Quest for Status in US American Parlors – Carola Bebermeier 9. Speculative Knowledge: Ellen Richards and Science of the Home, 1870–1911 – Serenity Sutherland Index -- .

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Selina Foltinek is a doctoral candidate of American Studies at the University of Bayreuth and a teacher of History, English, and Political Science Karin Hoepker is Associate Professor of North American Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nrnberg Katrin Horn is Professor of Gender Studies at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Greifswald

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